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Trying to use QuickLook for Chat transcript files isn’t working anymore on my machine.

First it takes >10 seconds to load (for files <20KB) - and then when it does finally load, it’s just an icon. I can’t actually read the chat.

Anybody else having this experience?

I’m not even quite sure what to try resetting! Deleting the QuickLook plists does not seem to have changed anything.

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    What chat transcript? From iChat? From Adium? Is there a standard for chat transcript files?
    – Loïc Wolff
    Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 15:58
  • Have you installed any QuickLook plugins recently?
    – Nathan Greenstein
    Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 16:07
  • They’re iChat transcript files, and yes, I have installed some QuickLook plugins.
    – Jack Brannen
    Commented Mar 6, 2012 at 21:16

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Might want to flush your various caches, specifically font caches - I like Cocktail and Lion Cache Cleaner for both.

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  • Cleaning caches (I used Onyx) didn’t change anything.
    – Jack Brannen
    Commented Mar 6, 2012 at 21:16
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Whenever you mess with .qlgenerator files, you should type qlmanage -r in the Terminal. This lets the whole QuickLook system know that you have gone around its back, and causes it to nuke its caches and re-initialize everything.

That may be the missing bit. I've known deleted .qlgenerator files to keep working until I did glmanage -r.

Before I discovered qlmanage -r, I tried emptying the trash after deleting the .qlgenerator file. This caused things to become unstable, and I had to re-boot!

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